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GWR Route: North Warwickshire Line
Danzey for Tanworth Station: gwrdt2830
Close-up of the recently completed three arched skew masonry
bridge over the driveway to Umberslade Hall in 1906. The contractor C J Willis
& Sons has constructed a temporary standard gauge track to deliver the
required building materials to the base of the bridge and there are three empty
Great Western Railway wagons visible. Between the two unidentified four plank
open wagons is two plank wagon No 15881, which was built in the 1870s as
one of the 100 wagons on lot 52. The Great Western Railway built almost 5,000
two plank wagons during that decade. Note this wagon has painted G
and W in large white letters, a feature that was introduced in
1904, while the two four plank wagons are likely to have been built around the
turn of the century and have retained their original cast iron ownership plates
fixed to the wooden body. See images 'gwrdt1420',
'gwrdt2823' and 'gwrdt2831' for more photographs of this unusual
bridge.
Robert Ferris
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